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2009-08-12 , 17:26
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Originally Posted by fms View Post
No, it is because the do not want to know. The costs of moving the whole industry to OpenOffice and hiring Linux gurus to babysit it are just too high.
It's certainly cheaper to use the same windows XP and office 2000 forever!

I don't think moving to OpenOffice requires that much retraining. The only problem is that when you open some Office files there are some things such as tables or figures or animations that get messed up. It's just this small "backwards compatibility" problem that turns people down...